Benjamin+Munson

Eighteen-year-old Yvonne Corrie Mesteth was the second of two patients to die of infection after [|safe and legal abortions]by South Dakota abortionist Benjamin Munson. (The other was [|Linda Padfield].) Life Dynamics lists Yvonne on their "[|Blackmun Wall]" of women killed by legal abortions. LDI notes the following:


 * Yvonne was in the second trimester of her pregnancy.
 * The abortion wss performed in Munson's office in Rapid City.
 * Yvonne developed an [|infection], kidney failure, and adult respiratory distress syndrome.
 * She died on July 27, 1985.

The Women's Action Alliance started a defense fund for Munson when he was on trial for Linda Padfield's death, on the grounds that prosecuting an abortionist for killing a patient with reckless malpractice constituted putting "abortion rights" "on trial." (//Women's Agenda//, vol. 2-3)